Agenda

Cross-Glances: Greek Lyric and Japanese Nō
1-2 September, 2026
Aula Magna Silvio Trentin, Ca’ Dolfin, Dorsoduro 3859/A, Venice

Tuesday, September 1

14:30-16:00
Vanessa Casato, Ca’ Foscari University Venice and Akiko Takeuchi, Hosei University Tokyo
Introducing the comparison between Greek lyric and Japanese nō

16:00-17:00
Enrico Prodi, Cagliari University
The missing dance and the returning hero: lyric evocation in Pindar’s Paean 6

17:00-17:30

Refreshments

17:30-18:30
Laura Sampson, Anna Murray, Vanessa Casato, Akiko Takeuchi Poetic Imagination in performance

Wednesday, September 2 

8:30-09:30
Yokoyama Taro, Rikkyo University Tokyo Nō for waka: how the stage restages the lyric moment

9:30-10:30
Michel Briand, Poitiers University Metamorphoses of ancient Greek melic poetry: song-and-dance in epinician and tragic choruses

10:30-11:00

Refreshments

11:00-12:00
Evert van Emde Boas, Aarhus University World-building in Greek lyric poetry about love

12:00-13:00
Yamanaka Reiko, Hosei University Tokyo The poetics of salt-water drawing scenes in nō plays

15:00-16:00
Diego Pellecchia, Kyoto Sangyo ̄ University
Radio adaptations of nō playtexts in Fascist Italy

16:00-17:00
Oswyn Murray, Emeritus Balliol College, Oxford
L’ Autre monde: another world

17:00-17:30
Closing remarks
followed by drinks and refreshments

19:00
(doors open at 18:45)
Performance in the Auditorium
S. Margherita ‒ Emanuele Severino

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 101068686